KANSAS CITY, Mo.- The Frontier Conference tallied three teams inside Top-25 in the first 2024 NAIA Football GoRout Top 25, released by the NAIA on Monday.
The 2023 NAIA Football Championship Semifinalist College of Idaho begins the season at No. 4, receiving 308 total points.
Reigning Frontier Conference Champions, Montana Western follows at No. 11 with 227 points.
Montana Tech, who qualified for the NAIA Football Championship Series First Round a season ago, starts the 2024 campaign at No. 21.
Southern Oregon and Carroll College also received votes, with both teams being just a few votes shy of cracking the top 25 to start the season.
The Frontier Conference Football slate begins this Saturday when College of Idaho takes on Lincoln University at home.
MSU-Northern, Rocky Mountain College, and Montana Tech will all debut next Thursday, August 29th.
The full 2024 NAIA Football GoRout Top 25 can be found below.
Poll Methodology:
- The rating is rated by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences. Each conference is given one rater for every four schools in the league or division.
- The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each rater rates the best teams. A team receives 25 points for each first-place vote, 24 for second-place, 23 for third-place and so on through the list.
- The highest and lowest ratings for each team (a non-rating is considered a low rating) are removed. The team’s rating will be recalculated with an additional point added to each team for every ballot (including discounted ballots) that the team appears on.
- Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered "receiving votes."
2024 NAIA Football GoRout Top 25 - Preseason (August 19)
| RANK |
LAST TIME |
INSTITUTION [FIRST-PLACE VOTES] |
POINTS |
| 1 |
3 |
Keiser (Fla.) [14] |
349 |
| 2 |
1 |
Northwestern (Iowa) [2] |
337 |
| 3 |
4 |
Georgetown (Ky.) |
310 |
| 4 |
10 |
College of Idaho |
308 |
| 5 |
2 |
Grand View (Iowa) |
291 |
| 6 |
6 |
Indiana Wesleyan |
274 |
| 7 |
5 |
Marian (Ind.) |
253 |
| 8 |
7 |
Bethel (Tenn.) |
245 |
| 9 |
10 |
Saint Xavier (Ill.) |
242 |
| 10 |
10 |
Morningside (Iowa) |
236 |
| 11 |
8 |
Montana Western |
227 |
| 12 |
15 |
St. Thomas (Fla.) |
179 |
| 13 |
14 |
Dordt (Iowa) |
171 |
| 14 |
9 |
Evangel (Mo.) |
159 |
| 15 |
16 |
Dickinson State (N.D.) |
149 |
| 16 |
13 |
OUAZ (Ariz.) |
125 |
| 17 |
20 |
Baker (Kan.) |
107 |
| 18 |
18 |
Reinhardt (Ga.) |
101 |
| 19 |
25 |
Benedictine (Kan.) |
95 |
| 20 |
19 |
Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) |
88 |
| 21 |
17 |
Montana Tech |
82 |
| 22 |
21 |
Louisiana Christian |
44 |
| 23 |
22 |
MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) |
32 |
| 24 |
23 |
Friends (Kan.) |
28 |
| 24 |
NR |
Kansas Wesleyan |
28 |
Receiving Votes: Southern Oregon 26; Carroll (Mont.) 21; Concordia (Mich.) 13; Ottawa (Kan.) 2; Pikeville (Ky.) 2